TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@midwest.social
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yeah, in my younger days I got up to ≈210km/h once. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to do that.
At 200km/h, you’re passing the cars around you as quickly as you usually pass stuff stationary by the side of the road. It’s insane.
The car felt planted and controlled, but still. One slightly wrong move and I would’ve been flying off an embankment or killing a fellow motorist.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 week ago:
Qi2 standard really helps with that. It incorporates the magnetic alignment and higher speeds from Apple’s MagSafe. Magnetic alignment makes wireless charging much better. Still less efficient than wired charging, but much more efficient than Qi without magnetic alignment.
If your phone doesn’t have the magnetic ring baked in you can often find cases that provide it, or magnets you can add to the outside of a case. Though my phone does have the magnets baked in, I also have a Snap 4 Luxe and I 3D printed a case that fits around it, to minimize the distance between charger and phone. Works really well!
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- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 1 week ago:
Can u get pregante?
- Comment on Physicists vs Normal People 3 weeks ago:
I learned something today.
I was taught in my younger days that “homonyms” were words that were spelled the same but pronounced differently, and “homophones” were words that were pronounced the same but spelled differently. “Break” and “brake” would then be homophones.
But it turns out “homonym” is the broader category including “homophones,” “homographs,” and words where both are true (same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings). So homophones are homonyms.
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P.S. Though Wikipedia says a more technical definition would limit “homonym” to, specifically, the third category, words that are spelled and pronounced the same but with different meanings. They give examples of “stalk” (part of a plant) and “stalk” (follow/harass a person), or “skate” (glide on ice) and “skate” (a type of fish).
P.P.S. This reminds me of the autoantonym (a word that is its own opposite) “cleave,” which can mean “to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly” or “to split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.“ I don’t know if “cleave” is technically a homonym, or if these are simply two definitions for the same word, and I don’t know who would decide that. But it’s still a fun word.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah what does “substantially” mean in this context?
The context is laid out clearly. You earn one additional dollar and that one additional dollar puts you in the 33% tax bracket.
Your tax bill would go up by 33% of one dollar. $0.33. Total.
The question doesn’t specify whether we’re talking about total dollars paid or just how much the tax percentage increases in that bracket.
It’s irrelevant. Your “total dollars paid” in taxes would increase by $0.33, and the difference that extra dollar is taxed vs the previous dollar is $0.05. Neither of these are “substantial.”
This question simply asks whether 0: you have reading comprehension skills and 1: you understand how tax brackets work.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 3 weeks ago:
What?
The question isn’t loaded at all, it just tests whether people know how tax brackets work.
- Comment on Why do people give their unwaivering support to autocrats? 4 weeks ago:
The wisdom that man managed to pack into so many hilarious novels is astounding. We did not deserve him.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 5 weeks ago:
The Jira thing has nothing to do with arrogance. That’s just a side note about how much I like working with Germans. 😅
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 5 weeks ago:
I genuinely can’t tell if they’re arrogant or if they’re knowledgeable and don’t bother to hide their expertise behind false modesty. But damn do German engineers write the best Jira tickets. So much detail, precise test steps, clarity about what changes they want made. Most engineers I get frustrated with because they don’t give us enough to work with, but German engineers almost give us too much.
- Comment on NZ Birbs 1 month ago:
Where Pūteketeke?
- Gives piggyback rides
- Good co-parent
- Bulemia
- Comment on The right person for me deserves better. 1 month ago:
The right person for me deserves better.
I’m sure you’re joking, at least at some level. But if you’re like me, you probably also believe it at some level.
It turns out this is, in some ways, a good mindset. Always keep in mind that your partner deserves better, and you’re driven to be better for them. Not because you aren’t enough, but because you can be your best when you learn to navigate the give-and-take that long-term relationships require. You’ll fuck up, but if you’re willing to be kind, empathetic, and most importantly apologetic, and willing to get up and try again when you fall, you’re already far ahead of plenty of people.
But if you start thinking you deserve better than your partner, you’re gonna have a bad time.
We’re all insecure at our core, but that means so is everyone else. The right person for you also thinks you deserve better. Build them up, and they’ll build you up in return.
(Sorry, I know it’s a shitpost.)
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 1 month ago:
I compare it to the smell of stinkbugs rather than soap.
- Comment on How do you express romantic interest in someone? 1 month ago:
Nah, Lost_My_Mind gives a much more typical representation.
- Comment on Those damn woke corners. 1 month ago:
He wouldn’t have died had he worn the “damn collar” as he called it. The HANS device likely would’ve saved his life, as I understand it, but he was too “old school” for driver safety. 🙄
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
That means the perfect resolution for TVs is actually QHD.
And yet QHD would be comparatively awful for modern content. 720p scales nicely to QHD, but 1080p does not. I suspect that’s why 4K has been the winner on the TV front, it scales beautifully with both 1080p (4:1) and 720p (9:1) content.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
That graph is fascinating, thank you!
- Comment on They were taught how to use red by the Atlanteans. 1 month ago:
Yes, their father is Al Reddy Tutcher
- Comment on The Man Who Met Kit Duncan 1 month ago:
I am all Ken M on this blessed day.
- Comment on Why the long gill? 1 month ago:
You bastard.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 1 month ago:
Sure!
“I don’t care who they are, if I’m asked I’ll give grammar tips to whomever.”
Whomever is tough, because often this would be constructed as “I’ll give grammar tips to whoever asks.” And you would use “who” there, because “whoever” is the subject of the clause “whoever asks.”
Generally speaking, it’s usually safe to pick “whoever” over “whomever.”
But if you drop the “-ever” it’s a lot easier. Anywhere you’d use “him” (that is, the objective pronoun), you use “whom.” To whom, for whom, by whom, etc.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 1 month ago:
Just to be pedantic, you should use “whoever” there, not “whomever.”
To tell whether to use “who” or “whom,” replace it with “he” or “him” and follow the ‘m.’
“he made this” vs “him made this”
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 1 month ago:
You roll it around your hand for shape, then remove it. It’s essentially the same as folding, unless you leave it on your hand, in which case you’re wasting half of it.
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 1 month ago:
bananananana*
*Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling “banana,” but didn’t know how you stopped.
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 2 months ago:
No Cincinnati chili Skyline coney?
- Comment on vroom vroom 5 months ago:
Recognized it instantly. I played too much of that game.